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Democratizing Financial Education: An API-Driven Platform Powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation
| Summary: | Addressing the critical gap in financial literacy requires scalable educational solutions that resonate with digital-native learners. This paper details an end-to-end system for delivering reliable financial education through an integrable conversational interface. Our architecture first uses a web scraper to automatically build a high-quality knowledge base from a trusted national portal. This curated data then grounds a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) conversational agent, a crucial step to ensure factual accuracy and mitigate Artificial Intelligence (AI) 'hallucinations.' The entire service is exposed via a high-performance Application Programming Interface (API), transforming the tool from a standalone application into a versatile service. This API-first design enables seamless integration into diverse educational ecosystems, such as university websites, learning management systems, and mobile apps, creating a trustworthy and scalable AI-powered educational platform. |
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| Main Authors: | Davi Silva Eleuterio |
| Other Authors: | Oliveira, Pedro Filipe; Matos, Paulo |
| Subject: | API Chatbot Financial-literacy RAG Web-scraping |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | conference paper |
| Access type: | restricted access |
| Associated institution: | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança |
| Language: | English |
| Origin: | Biblioteca Digital do IPB |
| Summary: | Addressing the critical gap in financial literacy requires scalable educational solutions that resonate with digital-native learners. This paper details an end-to-end system for delivering reliable financial education through an integrable conversational interface. Our architecture first uses a web scraper to automatically build a high-quality knowledge base from a trusted national portal. This curated data then grounds a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) conversational agent, a crucial step to ensure factual accuracy and mitigate Artificial Intelligence (AI) 'hallucinations.' The entire service is exposed via a high-performance Application Programming Interface (API), transforming the tool from a standalone application into a versatile service. This API-first design enables seamless integration into diverse educational ecosystems, such as university websites, learning management systems, and mobile apps, creating a trustworthy and scalable AI-powered educational platform. |
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